HP Contracts in London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of HP products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HP over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

HP England / London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	188	150	104
Rank change year-on-year	-38	-46
Contract jobs citing HP	282	359	499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.36%	1.68%	2.14%
As % of the Vendors category	3.28%	4.06%	4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted	184	243	324
Median daily rate	£410	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-3.52%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£270	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£574	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£360	£325	£350
% change year-on-year	+10.76%	-7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	11	7	28
Median hourly rate	£14.75	£18.00	£22.83
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-18.05%	-21.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£14.20	£13.27
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.40	£19.00	£62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£16.40	£26.79	£17.50
% change year-on-year	-38.76%	+53.07%

HP is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	8594	8848	10276
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	41.40%	41.39%	44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted	5811	6111	6782
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£275	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£605	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£363
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted	109	110	250
Median hourly rate	£23.75	£18.00	£20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+31.94%	-10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.93	£12.45	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.33	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.50	£18.07
% change year-on-year	-14.63%	+13.44%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing HP as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Vendors category.

HP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing HP in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for HP in London

HP
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing HP in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for HP in London

HP
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing HP in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-35	29	£475	+18.75%	17
Brentford	-	5	-	-
West End of London	+7	3	£500	+5.26%	2
Uxbridge	-	2	-	-	1
Wimbledon	-	2	£450	-
Canary Wharf	+2	1	-	-
Docklands, London	+1	1	£650	+165.03%
Osterley	-2	1	£313	-6.36%
Westminster	-	1	£223	-
Chiswick	-	1	-	-
Chessington	-	1	-	-
Feltham	-	1	£325	-
Hayes	-	1	-	-
Twickenham	-	1	£363	-
HP England

HP
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing HP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for HP.

1	207 (40.27%)	Windows
2	178 (34.63%)	Microsoft
3	145 (28.21%)	Active Directory
4	142 (27.63%)	VMware
5	126 (24.51%)	Finance
6	117 (22.76%)	ITIL
7	97 (18.87%)	Cisco
8	92 (17.90%)	VMware Infrastructure
9	89 (17.32%)	SQL
9	89 (17.32%)	Windows Server
10	84 (16.34%)	Linux
11	83 (16.15%)	SQL Server
12	80 (15.56%)	Firewall
12	80 (15.56%)	Microsoft Office
13	79 (15.37%)	SAN

14	77 (14.98%)	Windows Server 2012
15	70 (13.62%)	Citrix
16	67 (13.04%)	Hyper-V
17	65 (12.65%)	SCCM
18	64 (12.45%)	Agile Software Development
18	64 (12.45%)	Banking
19	63 (12.26%)	Data Centre
20	60 (11.67%)	Unix
21	59 (11.48%)	DNS
21	59 (11.48%)	Windows 7
22	57 (11.09%)	Windows Server 2008
23	56 (10.89%)	Security Cleared
23	56 (10.89%)	Microsoft Certification
23	56 (10.89%)	Dell
24	53 (10.31%)	Oracle

HP
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	44 (8.56%)	MS Exchange
2	29 (5.64%)	SharePoint
3	21 (4.09%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	20 (3.89%)	Exchange Server 2013
4	20 (3.89%)	Skype for Business
5	14 (2.72%)	Confluence
6	10 (1.95%)	SAS
6	10 (1.95%)	Tomcat
7	9 (1.75%)	Exchange Server 2007
7	9 (1.75%)	IIS
8	7 (1.36%)	Apache
9	5 (0.97%)	Apache Solr
9	5 (0.97%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
10	4 (0.78%)	Documentum
10	4 (0.78%)	SharePoint 2010
11	3 (0.58%)	OpenStack
11	3 (0.58%)	SharePoint 2013
11	3 (0.58%)	WebSphere
12	2 (0.39%)	Apache Spark
12	2 (0.39%)	MQSeries

Applications
1	80 (15.56%)	Microsoft Office
2	26 (5.06%)	MS Visio
3	13 (2.53%)	Microsoft Project
4	12 (2.33%)	Microsoft Excel
5	8 (1.56%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	1 (0.19%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	10 (1.95%)	SAP CO
1	10 (1.95%)	SAP FI
1	10 (1.95%)	SAP FI/CO
2	5 (0.97%)	Oracle EBS R12
3	4 (0.78%)	Maximo
3	4 (0.78%)	Remedy ITSM
4	3 (0.58%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
4	3 (0.58%)	Cognos TM1
5	2 (0.39%)	BPCS
5	2 (0.39%)	Dynamics CRM
5	2 (0.39%)	Eikon
5	2 (0.39%)	Exstream
5	2 (0.39%)	Oracle EBS
5	2 (0.39%)	SAP ERP
5	2 (0.39%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	2 (0.39%)	thinkFolio
6	1 (0.19%)	CSG Singleview
6	1 (0.19%)	Oracle Financials
6	1 (0.19%)	SAP HR
6	1 (0.19%)	Unit4 Business World

Cloud Services
1	51 (9.92%)	Office 365
2	50 (9.73%)	Amazon AWS
3	45 (8.75%)	Microsoft Azure
4	8 (1.56%)	Cloud Computing
4	8 (1.56%)	Mimecast
5	7 (1.36%)	IaaS
6	5 (0.97%)	Azure Active Directory
6	5 (0.97%)	SaaS
7	2 (0.39%)	OneDrive
7	2 (0.39%)	PaaS
8	1 (0.19%)	Adobe Analytics
8	1 (0.19%)	Amazon CloudWatch
8	1 (0.19%)	Amazon EC2
8	1 (0.19%)	Amazon S3
8	1 (0.19%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	1 (0.19%)	BrowserStack
8	1 (0.19%)	G Suite
8	1 (0.19%)	GitHub
8	1 (0.19%)	Google Cloud Platform
8	1 (0.19%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	80 (15.56%)	Firewall
2	79 (15.37%)	SAN
3	59 (11.48%)	DNS
4	49 (9.53%)	VPN
5	42 (8.17%)	WAN
6	39 (7.59%)	DHCP
6	39 (7.59%)	LAN
7	28 (5.45%)	Wireless
8	26 (5.06%)	Cisco ASA
9	25 (4.86%)	TCP/IP
10	24 (4.67%)	Internet
11	19 (3.70%)	NAS
12	18 (3.50%)	LDAP
13	17 (3.31%)	VoIP
14	15 (2.92%)	MPLS
15	14 (2.72%)	IPsec
15	14 (2.72%)	Kerberos
16	13 (2.53%)	NetScaler
16	13 (2.53%)	Network Security
16	13 (2.53%)	VLAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	83 (16.15%)	SQL Server
2	23 (4.47%)	SQL Server 2012
3	15 (2.92%)	Hadoop
4	14 (2.72%)	Oracle Database
5	12 (2.33%)	Big Data
6	11 (2.14%)	MySQL
7	8 (1.56%)	SQL Server 2005
8	7 (1.36%)	Apache Cassandra
8	7 (1.36%)	MongoDB
9	6 (1.17%)	SQL Server 2008
10	5 (0.97%)	SQL Server 2016
11	3 (0.58%)	Data Warehouse
11	3 (0.58%)	DB2
11	3 (0.58%)	Oracle BI EE
11	3 (0.58%)	Oracle Database 10g
11	3 (0.58%)	Oracle Database 11g
12	2 (0.39%)	MariaDB
12	2 (0.39%)	Oracle Database 12c
12	2 (0.39%)	SQL Server Integration Services
12	2 (0.39%)	SQL Server Reporting Services

Development Applications
1	40 (7.78%)	JIRA
2	26 (5.06%)	LoadRunner
3	25 (4.86%)	Jenkins
4	22 (4.28%)	HP UFT
4	22 (4.28%)	Selenium
5	16 (3.11%)	Git (software)
6	14 (2.72%)	JMeter
7	11 (2.14%)	Bitbucket
8	10 (1.95%)	Visual Studio
9	9 (1.75%)	Cucumber
9	9 (1.75%)	LoadUI
9	9 (1.75%)	VSS/SourceSafe
10	7 (1.36%)	Atlassian Bamboo
10	7 (1.36%)	Fiddler
10	7 (1.36%)	Log4j
10	7 (1.36%)	TeamCity
10	7 (1.36%)	YourKit
11	6 (1.17%)	Gatling
11	6 (1.17%)	Hudson
11	6 (1.17%)	SoapUI

General
1	126 (24.51%)	Finance
2	64 (12.45%)	Banking
3	24 (4.67%)	Investment Banking
4	21 (4.09%)	Retail
5	20 (3.89%)	Law
6	16 (3.11%)	Telecoms
7	13 (2.53%)	Financial Institution
7	13 (2.53%)	Marketing
8	12 (2.33%)	Legal
9	10 (1.95%)	Pharmaceutical
10	8 (1.56%)	Retail Banking
11	6 (1.17%)	Games
11	6 (1.17%)	Multimedia
11	6 (1.17%)	Publishing
12	5 (0.97%)	Billing
12	5 (0.97%)	Front Office
12	5 (0.97%)	Manufacturing
13	4 (0.78%)	International Banking
14	2 (0.39%)	Corporate Banking
14	2 (0.39%)	Electronics

Job Titles
1	83 (16.15%)	Analyst
2	38 (7.39%)	Infrastructure Engineer
3	36 (7.00%)	Consultant
4	33 (6.42%)	Architect
5	31 (6.03%)	Administrator
5	31 (6.03%)	Network Engineer
6	28 (5.45%)	Desktop Support
7	26 (5.06%)	Support Engineer
8	25 (4.86%)	Tester
9	24 (4.67%)	Test Analyst
10	21 (4.09%)	Support Analyst
10	21 (4.09%)	Systems Administrator
11	15 (2.92%)	3rd Line Engineer
11	15 (2.92%)	Hardware Engineer
11	15 (2.92%)	Infrastructure Specialist
12	14 (2.72%)	Automation Tester
12	14 (2.72%)	Developer
12	14 (2.72%)	Server Engineer
12	14 (2.72%)	Technical Architect
13	13 (2.53%)	VMware Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	18 (3.50%)	.NET
2	15 (2.92%)	SAML
3	14 (2.72%)	Web Services
4	12 (2.33%)	HTML
5	9 (1.75%)	Node.js
6	8 (1.56%)	802.1X
7	7 (1.36%)	Ajax
7	7 (1.36%)	ODBC
7	7 (1.36%)	XML
8	6 (1.17%)	Middleware
9	5 (0.97%)	ASP.NET
9	5 (0.97%)	RESTful
10	4 (0.78%)	SOAP
11	3 (0.58%)	COM
11	3 (0.58%)	Flash
11	3 (0.58%)	WAP
11	3 (0.58%)	XMPP
12	2 (0.39%)	CSS
12	2 (0.39%)	J2EE
12	2 (0.39%)	Java SE

Miscellaneous
1	63 (12.26%)	Data Centre
2	38 (7.39%)	Analytical Skills
3	29 (5.64%)	Clustering
4	26 (5.06%)	Blackberry
5	25 (4.86%)	Management Information System
6	18 (3.50%)	Computer Science
6	18 (3.50%)	Replication
7	13 (2.53%)	Video Conferencing
8	12 (2.33%)	Fat Client
8	12 (2.33%)	STB
8	12 (2.33%)	Thin Client
9	11 (2.14%)	Client/Server
10	10 (1.95%)	Wiki
11	9 (1.75%)	CMDB
11	9 (1.75%)	iPad
12	8 (1.56%)	PKI
13	7 (1.36%)	Smartphone
14	6 (1.17%)	Digital TV
14	6 (1.17%)	IPTV
14	6 (1.17%)	Video on Demand

Operating Systems
1	207 (40.27%)	Windows
2	89 (17.32%)	Windows Server
3	84 (16.34%)	Linux
4	77 (14.98%)	Windows Server 2012
5	60 (11.67%)	Unix
6	59 (11.48%)	Windows 7
7	57 (11.09%)	Windows Server 2008
8	30 (5.84%)	Windows Server 2003
9	28 (5.45%)	Windows 10
10	26 (5.06%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11	24 (4.67%)	Solaris
12	16 (3.11%)	Windows 8
13	15 (2.92%)	CentOS
14	14 (2.72%)	Android
15	10 (1.95%)	AIX
16	8 (1.56%)	Windows Vista
16	8 (1.56%)	Windows XP
17	7 (1.36%)	Apple iOS
18	5 (0.97%)	HPUX
18	5 (0.97%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	117 (22.76%)	ITIL
2	64 (12.45%)	Agile Software Development
3	53 (10.31%)	Test Automation
4	44 (8.56%)	Service Management
5	40 (7.78%)	Disaster Recovery
6	38 (7.39%)	Configuration Management
7	37 (7.20%)	High Availability
8	36 (7.00%)	Migration
9	35 (6.81%)	Project Management
10	34 (6.61%)	Change Management
11	33 (6.42%)	ITIL V3
12	26 (5.06%)	Test Management
13	24 (4.67%)	Business Analysis
13	24 (4.67%)	DevOps
13	24 (4.67%)	Functional Testing
13	24 (4.67%)	ITSM
13	24 (4.67%)	Time Management
14	22 (4.28%)	Performance Monitoring
14	22 (4.28%)	Performance Testing
15	21 (4.09%)	Server Building

Programming Languages
1	89 (17.32%)	SQL
2	49 (9.53%)	PowerShell
3	43 (8.37%)	Java
4	23 (4.47%)	Python
5	21 (4.09%)	Bash Shell
6	20 (3.89%)	C#
7	10 (1.95%)	JavaScript
8	8 (1.56%)	Shell Script
9	7 (1.36%)	Perl
10	6 (1.17%)	PL/SQL
11	4 (0.78%)	C
11	4 (0.78%)	Ruby
12	3 (0.58%)	Groovy
12	3 (0.58%)	Scala
12	3 (0.58%)	VB.NET
12	3 (0.58%)	VBScript
13	2 (0.39%)	R
13	2 (0.39%)	T-SQL
14	1 (0.19%)	VB
14	1 (0.19%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	56 (10.89%)	Microsoft Certification
1	56 (10.89%)	Security Cleared
2	41 (7.98%)	Cisco Certification
3	36 (7.00%)	Degree
4	31 (6.03%)	MCSE
5	30 (5.84%)	SC Cleared
6	23 (4.47%)	DV Cleared
6	23 (4.47%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7	20 (3.89%)	CCNA
7	20 (3.89%)	ITIL Certification
8	19 (3.70%)	CCNP
8	19 (3.70%)	ISEB
9	18 (3.50%)	ISTQB
10	14 (2.72%)	MCITP
11	10 (1.95%)	Computer Science Degree
12	9 (1.75%)	MCP
13	8 (1.56%)	CCIE
13	8 (1.56%)	MCSA
14	5 (0.97%)	CCSP
14	5 (0.97%)	Citrix Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	46 (8.95%)	SLA
2	23 (4.47%)	QA
3	22 (4.28%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	3 (0.58%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	3 (0.58%)	PMO
5	1 (0.19%)	BS25999
5	1 (0.19%)	PCI DSS
5	1 (0.19%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	145 (28.21%)	Active Directory
2	92 (17.90%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	67 (13.04%)	Hyper-V
4	34 (6.61%)	vSphere
5	21 (4.09%)	XenApp
6	17 (3.31%)	XenDesktop
7	16 (3.11%)	VMware ESXi
8	13 (2.53%)	Virtual Machines
9	8 (1.56%)	DFS Replication
9	8 (1.56%)	Veritas Cluster Server
10	7 (1.36%)	KVM
11	6 (1.17%)	Oracle RAC
11	6 (1.17%)	Terminal Services
11	6 (1.17%)	Virtual Servers
12	5 (0.97%)	BitLocker
12	5 (0.97%)	Docker
13	4 (0.78%)	Firmware
13	4 (0.78%)	VMware Server
14	3 (0.58%)	NFS
15	2 (0.39%)	ISA Server

Systems Management
1	65 (12.65%)	SCCM
2	41 (7.98%)	SCOM
3	35 (6.81%)	HP Quality Center
4	19 (3.70%)	Microsoft Clustering
5	16 (3.11%)	NetBackup
6	13 (2.53%)	Nagios
7	12 (2.33%)	HP Fortify
7	12 (2.33%)	HP SiteScope
7	12 (2.33%)	Puppet
8	11 (2.14%)	OpenView
9	9 (1.75%)	BladeLogic
9	9 (1.75%)	CA Single Sign-On
9	9 (1.75%)	Cisco CUCM
9	9 (1.75%)	PowerCLI
10	8 (1.56%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
11	7 (1.36%)	Grafana
11	7 (1.36%)	Graphite
11	7 (1.36%)	vCenter Server
11	7 (1.36%)	ZABBIX
12	6 (1.17%)	Ansible

Vendors
1	178 (34.63%)	Microsoft
2	142 (27.63%)	VMware
3	97 (18.87%)	Cisco
4	70 (13.62%)	Citrix
5	56 (10.89%)	Dell
6	53 (10.31%)	Oracle
7	49 (9.53%)	IBM
8	39 (7.59%)	Red Hat
9	38 (7.39%)	Symantec
10	37 (7.20%)	SAP
11	31 (6.03%)	3PAR
12	22 (4.28%)	Juniper
12	22 (4.28%)	SolarWinds
13	19 (3.70%)	Apple
13	19 (3.70%)	NetApp
13	19 (3.70%)	Veritas
14	17 (3.31%)	Bloomberg
14	17 (3.31%)	Reuters
15	16 (3.11%)	CheckPoint
15	16 (3.11%)	Sophos